Following on from Part 1, here are a few suggestion for carrying on your painting:
- Once you have sketched in all the major shadow shapes, you will need to roughly block in all the major colours.
- Don’t get bogged down in detail during this stage, just aim for a solid general impression.
- Use fairly big brushes, and stiffer brushes for applying thicker paint.
- Paint the shadows and lights separately.
- Paint the shadows thinly and apply lighter colours more thickly (impastoed).
- Look for cool and warm shifts, as this will add interest to your painting.
- Once you have reached a point where you have matched to general colours and values, you can begin stage 3 where you will be refining the detail.
